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Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Berkshire. The monument comprises a group of round barrows representing funerary practices of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds were constructed to contain individual or collective burials. The site demonstrates the settlement and ritual patterns of Bronze Age communities in the Thames Valley region. Round barrow cemeteries of this type are important archaeological indicators of social organisation and territorial use during the second millennium BCE.
Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012811. View the official record →
Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Berkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012811.
Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common. is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012811.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill (8.5 km), A bell barrow and a saucer barrow 315m ESE of the unfinished hillfort on Ladle Hill (8.7 km), The western of two rectangular enclosures on Great Litchfield Down, SSW of Ladle Hill (8.7 km).
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